The Alen Gas Monetization Project offshore Equatorial Guinea, with capacity to move 930 MMcfe/d, has achieved its first natural gas flows, Chevron Corp. said Friday.

The project, overseen by Chevron’s Noble Energy EG Ltd., runs 70 kilometers (43.5 miles) from the field in the Douala Basin. Processing is done at existing onshore facilities, maximizing how the current and future regional gas resources are developed and potentially turned into liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports.

Noble Energy EG’s Gene Kornegay, country manager, said as a “strategic partner” in the joint project, the management team looked forward to “contributing to the economic and social development of the country.”

Noble Energy Inc. sanctioned Alen in 2019 before the company merged with Chevron